France has decided to build a theme park based on the well-known french leader, Napoleon Bonaparte. You can read the article here: Napoleon.... the theme park But the thing is that will this and how would this help people learn and appreciate history? Well for starters, people don't like to listen in a classroom and hear the professor or the educator lecture them. They want other type of teaching devices, for example, videos. I watch the history channel during my free-time. But I'm mostly interested in World Wars but that's not the topic here. Also in the blueprints of the theme park, there was battle re-enactment. I think that is very very helpful to people trying to enjoy the park or just came to learn the basic background knowledge.
When people actually go and enjoy something, they learn something from it. Like if you play video games and you enjoy it, you learn how to...... . If you enjoy hacking and computing (like me), you learn something because you want to expand what you just experienced. So for instance, a random french dude goes to the park. He then heads to the Bastille zone, and did a little sight-seeing around it. Then he learns that there are battle re-enactment and enjoyed seeing it the battle. He might want to learn what happens after that battle and expands what he just learned.
So, I would like to go to the theme park anyway. Just to have fun.
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